On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:25 AM, John Martz wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, JOHN CARMONNE <carmo...@aol.com>
wrote:
Will Apple ever support eSATA?
I tend to doubt it. My total wild-ass speculating guess is that this
might be a Steve Jobs sort of thing. eSATA does not supply power to
the external device and perhaps "the Steve" has deemed this to be as
inappropriate as a two button mouse? Maybe they'll add support for
eSATA with power (e-SATAP ?) at some future date?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, JOHN CARMONNE <carmo...@aol.com>
wrote:
What's the deal on USB 3.0?
I don't know what the deal is with USB 3.0. I would have expected it
to be integrated into the motherboard chipsets by now. But it was
pointed out to me in another thread that Intel is currently talking as
though there is no need to incorporate USB 3.0 until sometime towards
the end of 2011 or perhaps even 2012?
PC motherboards currently support USB 3.0 by incorporating a non-Intel
chip. The only response Intel appears to have to that is to announce
plans to sell their own discrete USB 3.0 support chip.
I think Intel has its corporate bureaucratic head up its butt.
Apparently the planners expect they can do the transition to USB 3.0
the same way that the move to USB 2.0 was done i.e. pretty much on
their terms. However, no one seems to have checked with the Chinese
manufacturers. They don't seem to care one bit about Intel's plans and
are tossing USB 3.0 devices at the market with what appears to be an
increasing pace.
The market may well move fast enough on its own to leave Intel behind
(at least for a bit).
What truly surprises me is that AMD has not tried to exploit this by
integrating USB 3.0 into one of their chipsets. Oh, well.
My Macish point here is that I don't see Apple adding USB 3.0 support
until Intel integrates it. Maybe they'll go the separate chip support
route if the market builds enough. And/or if there are enough
competing USB 3.0 chips out there for Apple to pit one against the
other and get them at close to cost.
USB 3.0 on a Mac would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath in
anticipation.
Well that leaves the MacPro for those of us that want to buy a new
machine, And a good reason not the sell the older "dogs" that are
more suited to all the methods of large and fast data transfer.
I keep sticking up for Ap,le on the SD front because I think maybe
that will become a new universal transfer port other than a camera,
like maybe the new SSD drives are?? Like any day there'll be a brand
new device come out that will plug into the SD port on all the Apple
units and be a super connection to all systems.
JOHN CARMONNE
Yorba Linda USA
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